想要得富贵福泽，这要看天意，由不得自己；要想成为贤人君子，主要靠自己，由不得天意。

科学方法是统一且不可分割的，科学方法既适用于物理问题，也适用于社会问题。

生活是由选择构成的，而每一个选择都是一种放弃。

海鲜的真正成本不在价格标签上，而在于我们保护或破坏的生态平衡。

The world is a great symphony, and we are the notes.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

The danger is not that we will be deprived of speech， but that we will have nothing worth saying.

The database is the most important piece of software in the enterprise, and the most important piece of software in the enterprise is the database. The database is the foundation of all applications. The database is the heart of the application, and the application is the heart of the business. The key to performance is to keep the hot data in memory. The future of databases is in the cloud. Data is the new oil. It's valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value. The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. The most important thing in a database is the data model. If you get the data model right, everything else will follow. The database is the most important piece of software in the enterprise, and the most important piece of software in the enterprise is the database. The database is the foundation of all applications.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.